Social Media

A new Sky+HD box already?

by Antony Bailey July 18, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Recently I tweeted to say that my Sky+HD box was sticking on standby. This was picked up by @SkyHD who asked me to DM them my details and they would get someone to look at this. I sent the details and I heard nothing back. I didn’t concern myself too much as [...]

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Should you be Mayor of your own business on Foursquare?

by Antony Bailey July 17, 2010

I recently got to thinking about the Mayor offers that are made on Foursquare by certain companies and it made me wonder about who should be allowed to be Mayor of a place. I hate to single out one person, however for the sake of transparency I will choose one whom I know. Image by [...]

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Do tweet counts matter?

by Antony Bailey June 15, 2010

Due to a recent glitch on Twitter, many people (myself included) have found their tweet counts reduced in most cases by several thousand. Image via Wikipedia I was somewhere between 8,000 and 9,000 tweets when I checked and now I am at less than 1,000. Many people will argue that this is of no significance, [...]

So Royal Mail can’t deliver a parcel as they’re too dumb to push a button

by Antony Bailey June 8, 2010

Having recently moved home and deciding to get Home Phone, Broadband and TV from Sky, I was impressed with the service I got from Sky when they came out and fitted my TV service and with BT when they came and attached my phone line. Image via Wikipedia However, Sky have decided that Royal Mail [...]

I met James Kane from @KanesTeaRooms and the food was great

by Antony Bailey June 3, 2010

A few weeks ago I saw that @KanesTeaRooms was advertising that their 100th follower on Twitter would receive a free breakfast. Being an ex-student, I’m always keen to get something for nothing. Image by PartTimeLegend via Flickr I hit that Follow Button, and I am the 100th follower. I waited a little while, simply because [...]

I met Adam and Suman from the Amateur Transplants

by Antony Bailey May 25, 2010

I’ve long said that meeting people off the internet in real life is one of the worst ideas you can ever have. Oh, how I learnt this self-fulfilling prophecy well on Saturday. Image by totalpodcastrophe via Flickr I had seen that @amateuradam, had posted a tweet asking who lived in Liverpool as he was heading [...]

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